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The first American: a story of North American archaeology

By Clara Winston, Richard Winston, C. W Ceram. 1971

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio

A wide-ranging account of the development of North American archaeology, with particular emphasis on early man, the Southwest, the American…

Indian, and the mound builders. 1971. Uniform title: Der erste Amerikaner.

The far land

By Eva MacLean. 1993

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Biography, Historical biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern…

B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.

The cowboy legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American frontier (The west series ; #7)

By John Jennings. 2015

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime…

novel. This book details the evidence that Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. 2015.

The griffin and the dinosaur: how Adrienne Mayor discovered a fascinating link between myth and science

By Marc Aronson, Adrienne Mayor. 2015

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Science and technology, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio

Traces the research scientist co-author's explorations in Greece and the Gobi Desert for the origins of the mythical griffin, relating…

the story of the ancient Scythians and the griffins that were said to have guarded their treasure. Grades 2-4. 2015.

The curse of King Tut's mummy (Stepping stones. True stories)

By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. 2007

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, Ancient history, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

When the pharaohs of Egypt died, they were mummified and buried in pyramids and tombs with all their riches. But…

as centuries passed, the tombs were looted and the pharaohs' gold stolen. Then Howard Carter found the greatest Egyptian treasure trove of all - the tomb of King Tut's mummy! But did the amazing treasure come with a deadly curse? Grades 2-4. 2007.

The bone and sinew of the land: America's forgotten black pioneers and the struggle for equality

By Anna-Lisa Cox. 2018

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio
This is the story of the brave black pioneers who escaped slavery and settled the frontier, even as America headed toward civil war. 2018.

The bones of St. Peter: the first full account of the search for the Apostle's body

By John Evangelist Walsh. 1982

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Christianity, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio

Describes the archeological exploration begun in 1939 in Rome to unearth the lost remains of St. Peter. Details the excavations…

under St. Peter's Basilica, the uncovering of the tomb, and the historical and archeological evidence indicating that the discovered bones are those of St. Peter. 1982.

T. rex and the crater of doom

By Walter Alvarez. 1997

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Science and technology, Archaeology, Dinosaurs
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A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…

sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.

Tales mummies tell

By Patricia Lauber. 1985

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Ancient history, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio

Discusses the human mummies of Egypt and how they were preserved, the discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia and…

the mummies of Peru. For junior and senior high readers. 1985.

Snowshoes & spotted dick: letters from a wilderness dweller

By Chris Czajkowski. 2003

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature
Human-narrated audio

The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as…

she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.

Spilsbury's coast: pioneer years in the wet West

By Howard White, Jim Spilsbury. 1987

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Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10…

of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.

Sisters in the wilderness: the lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill

By Charlotte Gray. 1999

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill came to Canada with their husbands in the early 1800s. Both women recorded…

their experiences as pioneers in the new country in books that would later be held up as early examples of Canadian literature. Here, Gray sheds light on what their lives were like in relation to each other, in relation to their families, and in relation to the harsh environment that surrounded them every day. 1999.

Secrets of the mummies: uncovering the bodies of ancient Egyptians (An I was there book)

By Shelley Tanaka, Peter Brand. 1999

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, History, Ancient history, Science and technology, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Four mummies, from a mighty pharaoh to a poor weaver, are studied scientifically to reveal the lives and times of…

these three-thousand-year-old people. Also describes embalming and mummification, life in ancient Egypt, and the scientific techniques now used to study mummies. Grades 3-6. 1999.

Search for the Maya: the story of Stephens and Catherwood

By Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen. 1973

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio
Traces the lives of American lawyer John Lloyd Stephens and English architect Frederick Catherwood, discoverers of the Maya Civilization. c1973.

Salt of the earth: the story of homesteaders in Western Canada

By Heather Robertson. 1974

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Historical biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and…

back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.

Revenge of the land: a century of greed, tragedy, and murder on a Saskatchewan farm

By Maggie Siggins. 1991

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…

fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.

Pilgrims: a nonfiction companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday (Thanksgiving on Thursday. #13)

By Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce. 2005

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

What was it like to be a passenger on the Mayflower? How many people survived the first harsh winter in…

the New World? How did Pilgrim children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this 'Magic Tree House' Research Guide, which includes fun facts from Jack and Annie. Grades 2-4. 2005.

Peking man: The Discovery, Disappearance And Mystery Of A Priceless Scientific Treasure

By Harry L Shapiro. 1974

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Science and technology, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio
An American anthropologist recounts the discovery of the fossils of prehistoric man in china in 1926, their dramatic disappearance, and the mystery of their whereabouts today. 1975, c1974.

Oh what a slaughter: massacres in the American west

By Larry McMurtry. 2005

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres - Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River,…

Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. 2005.

Nathan Boone and the American frontier (Missouri biography series)

By R. Douglas Hurt. 1998

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Biography of Daniel Boone's youngest son, who followed in his father's footsteps as a frontiersman. Nathan worked as trapper and…

hunter, a surveyor, and a soldier, eventually settling in Missouri with a family of fourteen children. He was instrumental in the removal of tribes to the Indian Territory that enabled settlement of the plains by pioneers. 1998.

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